Car-door-locking device



vFel. 15 1921.

v 1,617,429 w. E. WINE l cARpooR LOCKING DEVICE Filed Jan. 12. '1922- William' 1i'. I4/rin e,

Inv/enfin' Patented Feb. 1927.

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" My ineen-ien @niet 'to new ei-d' *eeft-11' construction 'and olieratin. 'A jj l Still another object 'f the r'e'se'r'it 7invention to fprortide a'locllihgfdefice that iis especially 'adapted fifr use jon 'freight Vfears hawiiig drop bottoni do'r's'i which Vd'oixs are to be 'swung 'uiwardly entending*meewegen uiieofein byiia the ,ji i

free sid'eofthe` door.v A 4 y r .7.

111 ijn-Other 'object '0f-the inve'm511611- ,is to 'provide a 'locking deiice cinprisiiigifa base or bracket which is designed to be 'secured e the @einem 'thisgrbreke e 'having forinedintegrally thereon g'l'ar'd fr lions-l 'a1-'meinem 'd einem@ bf;

will be hereinafter incryfuuy. des@ jpoiiitefd out inthe claims, M j. Rfrlg OW @Ofth dflWi-SST a' referred Ywird@ j 5 rie-1 'is ai side @Lev wwf- Vice showing a fragriienvtfryfportiii Oifga side of a. car' and one side "of aldoor, the door' being held in its locked position. ,Y f y 'i ig. 2 a 'Searcher view 'taken-*online "2-2'0 ,Fig-,1'-

Fig. fi ie 1a' pereplecnve 'newline' 'base gjnrl'angle 'or o er ineiber secured "tort-he4 bottoni 'of the A'door and'ex- 1 1 ythe Fig. el is; :sectional View einen en Iii-*1e I 'S7 'ferial-sh the drwn y e th'l "s`der-go the car above the angle yer @hennep-e or bracket 6 of the-'locking device Whi ich' ay 'l bie-rectangular 'Snape fndgipifoviliedwitli Abossl y7 I Y l course, Medaillen fffij there@ Wh ch he base reinforces' jtiei sine- -or the een' utfths Y we :tese f6 there is.Y

*hisl lioltfleirs Visl passed et'. ef i-negro k when :enen-eek "ferien quickly .effe-vreten@ tbe'A tapering and extend completely across the shank ofthe hook just so long as the reary edge is not joined with the base 6, in such a manner as would interfere with the rota- 17 into its securing position o 1' tion of the dog behind the hook. n

The operation of the device is exceedingly simple: supposing the door is .in its locked ufbe deaf-1y 5 l 'point "16 at,v its position, to unlock the same, it is first only v lnecessary to swingv the'dogY 17k rearwardly and-knocktheE hook 51frorn beneath the leg of the angle lJfan'd to lock the door,l vof course, the operation is simply reversed.

Y v From the foregoing it will be seenfthat l have provided a locking meansthazt' is V-eX-Y ceedingly simple in construction, mayV be readily and quickly applied to freight vcarsv and is` easily operated to lock the door land tightly hold the. same in its lockedposition. In the drawing, AI have ,shown only one Y Vside of a car `and vone locking'device, but it willbe understood that in numbers off instances, a similar arrangement willvbevused ffi `forming the bracket with,` integral on the opposite sides'of the carand door so' that the doorwill `be supported and locked f1omlboth of its outer` ends.

- :spacedinner and outer walls,- 1in both of '--\vhich, thefpivot' pin 13 :has bearing, it will vbe seen that the` pinll'will be held inarigid Y mannerso thatnoudue looseness of', `the hook can 4develop v1n Vservice from, relative movement .between the inner; and outern lbear-y ings f or the pivot pin. 1 Furthermore, thein- :tegral end yWallithatv unites the yinnerv and outer walls tojformthehousing is arranged Y, tov follow the linesof the forward edge of j ,.a'bove the pivot pin. ,'And it will also y*be noff,ticed that-by. diverting theconnecting wall Y soV that the housing 11V is joined to the inner thehook .whenit isin' its extreme forward i position, soj that the unsupported area ofthe outerwall A11'. is reduced tofa minimum and A alsoI a stop is provided Within the bracket f itself for thehook. The arcuate upperend lO'of the connecting wall follows aroundthe circular end of the hook. above the pivot point -thereof so that thedownwardforce fromthe n load ofk the pin V13 will beresisted in part by this joiningvmetallocated in hoodfashion in vthis manner, it follows lan angular path y wall orbase by an, upright4 connecting'wall fof. extremely lightweight *andv yet of great strength'in yall ,directiens.k ,This isV of impor-, tance asthe casting is frequently subjected :to abusesuchv as ,being struck by a hammer Y Y or agbiarl bythe workmen. Y Y 7 f Y jBy mak'ng the outer wallv 11 of less extent than the* inner wall, the rivets forfsecuring' the bracket tothe cai-*may `pass through the Y .i inner wall only, thus making them easier to f drive and of less weightjthanl werasthey y passed through a greater grip: o f `mat erial.

f' The. rivet forming the pivot pointof the ldog k:Ulisr` preferably loosely drivento avoid p clamping the dog against the faceV of the 'i bracket, hence this rivet offers but little revslstance against slippage of the bracket. The other three rivets, however, may be sec'urely driven, two of them lying to one side of the hook and along the edge of the hook.

Therivets are thus'arranged to balance the.

forces from the hook and will hold the bracket against vslippagevor rotation, while,V -at the same time-the rivets, particularlythe two important ones lying along the connecting walls of metal, pass through the bracket at points. especially able to withstand the v yconcentration of rivet pressures.

It will thusbe seen thatl inthe arrange- .ly simple construction, but at the same-time ment ,as shown/anddescribed, I havejproduceda vdoorflocking mechanism of lextremewithal-he elementssoarranged that no) metal iswasted andthe device is ofext'remely light weight. This is important yas they general effort` of vtoday is to reduce: the dead weight of freight cars. l Myfdeviceis especially de-Vv sirable from lthispoint of view.

Y, Manyfslight changeslniightQbemad-eV withoutin `wayydepartmg yfrom l the spirit -and scope of the invention.vv

jHaving thus Idescribed my Patent is 5 -nvention,V what Iclann as new anddesire to secure by Letters 13A locking device for drop Vdoorslcom-V ,.prisinga base, a. tapered housing,formed-1ntegral with saidbase and, said housing open i i along itsrear edge, a hook pivotally mounted in the housinglsaid'housing'enclosing both V of thev shan-k of said hook, fand means for holding'the hook forwardly in said housing its locked position.y Y f 2A locking devi.

of metal integral therewith, a hook havinga pivot eye at the upper v`extremity vof its shank, Y Y the said eye portion of the'fshanky lyi1'1g: .'be;jl e v icc ber extending through both walls vvand tween the said lintegral walls,A pivot' mem'- e throughthe eyeof the hook, an integral end ,wall fofA metal joiningthe outer and inner wallsthe same approximately defining an Y y le for drop doors V'em-i lbodying an inner wall of metal, an outerwall oc the upper edge of said hookA and a portion v 

